Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa, has recently graduated to low-middle-income country status. Despite recent economic growth, poverty rates stand at 79 percent, with 42 percent of the population living in extreme poverty.
The urgent and lasting solutions needed to achieve SDG 2 require change across multiple levels, with the World Food Programme working every day to raise awareness and encourage positive action.
International Women’s Day 2022 focuses on “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow” recognizing the contribution of women and girls around the world who play a crucial role in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
Women and girls often lack appropriate access to disaster information, financial services and participation in community decision-making and resource allocation.
Names in this story have been changed to protect the identities of individuals.
One day, Anyuarach went to the pharmacy to buy for her father medicine. There, two men raped her.
“I did not plan to tell anyone. But then I missed my periods and I had to explain to my father what happened,” she says.
This was during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
Chad is a landlocked Sahelian country in central Africa, with one of the highest levels of hunger in the world – 42 percent of its population live below the poverty line.
The funds will allow WFP to provide lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to nearly 370,400 affected people who are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)’s and host families, pregnant or breastfeeding women, children and rural households experiencing food insecurity.
Over the past decade, the World Food Programme has been using cash transfers more often alongside food deliveries to provide assistance to people in need.
As part of this campaign, WFP has enlisted top restaurateurs and celebrity chefs from around the globe to join the movement by making their own pledge to #StopTheWaste
While there is enough food in the world to feed everyone, one third of the 4 billion metric tons of food we produce each year is lost or wasted, costing the global economy nearly US$1 trillion annually.
WFP immediately provided emergency rations of high-energy biscuits to evacuated families sheltering with friends and families in nearby camps and transit centres and will today – 23 March – provide 60,000 hot meals to affected families.
Last night, WFP's Engineering experts were deployed to help contain the fire while food assistance teams provided rapid assistance to affected families.
In 2022, with support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), WFP introduced liquid petroleum gas cooking in humanitarian settings in Eastern Chad. This factsheet outlines findings and implications of the project for improving the resilience of communities.